This is a shot of my Wildzone taking from my seat on the patio. It is the greenest area of our yard.

This is a good shot of Jared's basil. I would have to eat it like spinach to use it all. Lately, I've been putting it in my ramen and making caprese salads with it.

This beautiful Carolina Wren was hopping all over the PMP today.

This is an accidental shot of the flowers on the PMP. I was trying to get a closer shot of the wren!

Northern Cardinal taking a turn on the favorite perching branch of the Hackberry Tree near the back feeder.

Northern Cardinal on the back feeder.

I don't even want to know what Mr. Vinny is snooping around looking for.

This is a Carolina Chickadee on the back feeder.

The little monster is up to something.

This is a beautiful juvenile Northern Cardinal. I have never seen one this color before. To my naked eyes, from 50 yards away, it looked yellow.

Here's another view of him.

Miss Olive was not as rambunctious this morning.

Here we have a female House Finch on the same branch you saw the cardinal on earlier.

No matter how hard I try, I just can't seem to get a good picture of these.

This shot has the full life cycle of the Pride of Barbados: bud, blossom, withering blossom, and seed pod.

This plant has produced many offspring. Some we are letting grow. Others were "weeded".

I don't remember what this plant is and don't feel like looking it up right now. It is one that Rachel has planted in a ground-level planter box on the PMP. There are three different colors of them in the planter. They only bloom and look pretty like this when I flood the planter to overflowing everyday. Skip a day or two and there aren't any blossoms.

Volunteer Sweet William wrapped in a volunteer peanut vine in the planter box on the PMP.

volunteer Zinnia

a different color zinnia on the same volunteer plant

Sweet William

Check this out! An absolutely stunning MERLOT colored Sweet William blossom on the same plant as the pink ones.

Okay... Notice the contrast between the Wildzone and the rest of the lawn. I do not water the lawn anymore. Usually, it is covered with straggling daisy all summer long. Unfortunately, this year the extreme hot and dry conditions killed that off. The Wildzone is sustained through moderate waterings of my favorite plants. Most of them would be concidered weeds my other people. If I like the way a "weed" looks, I water it. If I don't like the way a weed looks, it has to fend for itself.

Today, I caught both yellow and purple flowers on the Lindheimer Senna. The purple ones are on a tievine and don't always open.

The berry clusters on the neighbors tree are turning red. I don't know what it is.

Two things I can't resist taking photos of: Jared's basil blossoms and bees!

This honey bee looked a little thin to me. He doesn't have much pollen on his legs. This has been a hard summer for all living things.

Such a beautiful creature. This was taken on macro, but is still a little fuzzy. The resolution is poor.

I cropped this one in pretty close. That's why it is a little fuzzy.